Where do I find drivers for the Realtek 8111E LAN controller?

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Solution 1

Your motherboard has a Realtek RTL8111E Gigabit Ethernet controller.

The driver built-into the Linux kernel should work, but if you wish to install the latest driver supplied by the manufacturer, you can get it here.

Open the downloaded file in Archive Manager, and extract it, e.g to the Downloads folder as shown below:
Open a terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T, and change to that directory, e.g. cd Downloads/r8168-8.031.00
Type sudo ./autorun.sh and that should take care of removing the old driver and installing the new one.

Solution 2

The driver can be found here as well as the answer as how to install it. The ASUS P8H61-M LX motherboard comes with the Realtek® 8111E , 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller(s) therefore the proper driver needs to be updated.

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Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

dotancohen over 1 year

I just bought an ASUS P8H61-M LX motherboard. This motherboard comes with a Windows driver package to enable the onboard ethernet port. My troubles with this board are documented here and here. After installing Windows the LAN did not work either, but after installing the supplied driver disk in Windows the LAN was then enabled.

I have been googling for the Linux driver but cannot find it. I see that others have used this motherboard in Linux, so apparently it is possible. I wrote to ASUS but I do not expect a reply for 48-72 hours.
ish almost 12 years

The current driver from Realtek includes an autorun.sh file that takes careof all the manual steps outlined in the blog post.
dotancohen almost 12 years

Thank you. I downloaded LINUX driver for kernel 3.x and 2.6.x and 2.4.x from all five of the mirrors, not a single one got over 10 KiB before disconnecting. I'll keep trying.
ish almost 12 years

@dotancohen: try the "unofficial" mirror hosted at google code
ish almost 12 years

It's the same family - same driver. That's the one I dLd from rtl (see screenshOT closely). Use lshw -c network to check.